Penetration Testing
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Penetration Testing:
Vastly decrease attackers success

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About Penetration Testing: Purpose

Penetration testing is becoming more relevant as more elements of the company are digitized. Companies are more reliant on information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).

Seculyze conducts penetration tests for large private companies, public institutions, and SMEs.

The purpose of penetration testing is to find, document, and remediate security issues. Seculyze will simulate cyberattacks against your computer systems and infrastructure to imitate real-work attacks.

Top 5 Benefits of Penetration Testing

By performing penetration testing, we can reveal your real vulnerabilities and identify the real risk and attack surface that is exposed before the hackers do: Seeing what an attacker could do in a ‘real world’ scenario.

It is practical, not theoretical. By using third-party experts, your management is more inclined to react.

By practicing a real-life hack, your organization uses their capabilities and learns, what could be changed and what works. You can detect attacks and respond adequately on time. Testing the effectiveness of your protection strategy in a safe environment providing learnings to improve your defense.

The business must continue to operate. By testing, your company can avoid costly data breaches and the loss of business operations. Nowadays, maturing the security posture in your organization, is a way to maintain a competitive advantage over competitors in addition to stopping hackers.

A security breach can hit your company financially, on the trust of your brand and on your reputation. A breach negatively affects the loyalty of your customers, which can be countered by testing, so you are known for strict and systematic security reviews which penetration testing can facilitate.

Compliance and security obligations from regulations and standards are addressed through testing. Standards could be PCI, ISO 27001 or similar, which may require a certain level of penetration testing and security reviews.

Penetration Testing Process

Penetration testing at Seculyze follows a generic process based on NIST 800-115 with few alterations. It is created as a learning cycle, so one ending provides input to the next test.

Its simplicity is its strength, as it focuses on security issues that matter and not yet another vulnerability scan. The process can be altered depending on your needs and on testing subject.

Plan

Rules of engagement are identified, scope, the type of penetration test I.e., Whitebox or Blackbox. Management approval is finalized and documented, and testing goals are set. It is here the groundwork for a successful penetration test is set

Discover

Discovery has two parts: First part is information gathering and scanning e.g., network port, user enumeration and service identification to identify potential targets. Second part is analysis of the output from the discovery phase and performing a vulnerability assessment.

Attack

The heart of a penetration test: Exploiting the weaknesses and vulnerabilities by obtaining the first access, escalating privileges, system browsing and installing additional tools – and repeat potentially doing additional discovery. There can be many different avenues an attacker use depending on the clients infrastructure.

Report

Report is the output of the test but is done simultaneously with the three other phases. Identified vulnerabilities, a risk rating, and guidance on mitigation giving input to hardening your environment.

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Kristian Jacobsen

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Kristian Jacobsen

CTO

+45 61792740

kristian@seculyze.com